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[Nook Color General] evilPERSOn2009:
For the price of an iPad2, you might as well by a laptop or Nook Color + PSP2 (Quad Core CPU, Wifi,, 3G, GPS, Dual Analog Sticks, Android Support, and etc).

Was planning to get an iPad2 base of the rumored super high res screen but when the official specs came out and it was using the same screen as the current iPad it was not longer interested in it.

Nook Color + PSP2
[Nook Color General] britoso:
Mine came with 1.1.

I downloaded that 166MB update file over 3G for nothing!

Please post if you see backlight bleeding at the bottom edge (above the nook/home button). I have it.

Default ROM was quite useless for me, after autonooter3.0 its better but not perfect. Trying CM7 next...
[Nook Color General] evilPERSOn2009:
There is always going to be some back-lighting bleeding problem. If its minor and you have no dead pixels consider yourself lucky.
[Nook Color General] Whitepaint:
Just ordered one! Hello NC Forum community, happy to be here. Will be my first tablet.
[Nook Color General] |attf|:
which one of you just won my ebay sale, paid tonight.. ;)

mine was used, but she works perfect. I didn't need a tab, just wanted to mess with it. Fun, stable at 1.1Ghz.
[Nook Color General] FatherSauce:
Man, I haven't used Ebay or Paypal in so long. I'm having to go through the whole set up process for paypal. Hopefully the sales not ending real soon cause it's gonna take me a couple of days...
[Nook Color General] ctran81:
I'm anxiously waiting for mines. It shipped on 3/1 from the east coast, but i'll have to wait until friday as im in the west coast. :(

Considering returning it for an ipad2... :(
[Nook Color General] sooevo:
Just got my NC Today! Really liking this thing but my wifi reception is terrible! Anyone know if B&N would do a store exchange even though I bought off ebay?
[Nook Color General] nislo:
FYI, from the eBay page
[Nook Color General] FatherSauce:
Dang. Sucks for me.
[Nook Color General] lellouchftw:
Sigh. I hope I didn't waste my money on a refurbished unit with wifi issues, dead pixels, etc.

If these units are indeed refurbished, this was quite a dishonest move from Barnes and Nobles IMHO...
[Nook Color General] azj:
Good news: Delivery re-scheduled from tomorrow to today!

Bad news: I've got other plans for tonight and my uSD card probabply won't be here anyway. :-(
[Nook Color General] yeahthatsme:
I got my Nook last night but the SD card was delayed from Amazon. Wow is this thing near useless without being rooted, 5 mins of playing sudoku and using that lame browser I put it aside for the EVO. Hurry SD card!
[Nook Color General] lyam23:
I don't think you really need a high spec uSD card to root it. Only if you want to run a ROM from the card.

Get thee to a Wal Mart!
[Nook Color General] richorlin:
Ordered mine last night. With a 10% off coupon I found in my email it came to $186.45 tax included. UPS label was printed but it hasn't been picked up, so I will probably have it by Monday. The one I got from BestBuiy last week is going to go back as soon as I check out the new one.

I thought about a refurbished 16gb iPad from Apple for $349 but I had a 3G model that I sold last year because I wasn't using it that much, so $186 sounded better for a toy. Can always sell it in six months without losing much money.
[Nook Color General] magicalsleeper:
You got the 10% coupon to work with this? Good job, from what I was reading so far was that it wouldnt stack (only read 1 person state this, but yeah...) <200 for a "toy" certainly is a good price ;)
[Nook Color General] cmstlist:
Ordered mine last night! Will have to pick up in Point Roberts. Too bad I didn't also know about the 10%.

Regarding the refurbished thing, I hope too that this isn't the case. But it's worth mentioning that I dropped by a B&N in Emeryville on Tuesday. I tried out the hardware and liked it. Then I pulled up the eBay page to show the guy in store. He said, interesting, I wonder if those are refurbished units.
[Nook Color General] spidermonkeyrob:
Got mine yesterday. No evidence of it being used. Wifi is amazing on mine. I'm in my garage where my phone (Nexus One, praised for its wifi strength) only gets one bar and drops signal often... NC gets 3/4 bars and rarely drops down to 2. Ordered mine Monday around 6PM and received it by Wednesday. Shipped from Sparks, NV to Bay Area, CA in pretty much one day. Loving it.
[Nook Color General] cmstlist:
Mine is marked with a tracking number now, yay!

Odd though: When I enter that tracking # into UPS, it tells me of a 3.30 lbs package, but that the shipment also contains a second 2.40 lbs package. Is this normal?
[Nook Color General] igolfchip:
Placed my order yesterday, 2nd one for our home. Great price and capabilities for a basic tablet.

Going to install Honeycomb on it (other one just rooted) to see if better than the stock.
[Nook Color General] mystix.:
My shipment is showing the same thing. Im thinking it could be accessories? That sucks that they seperated the shipment because I will have to pay $5/per package.

I do hope I get a new one with all these horror stories popping up.
[Nook Color General] magicalsleeper:
According to the slickdeals thread, its pretty much only 1 person stating that they got a refurb unit...the rest are saying they have a shrinkwrapped new unit. Getting mine tomorrow and I'm interested to know about those of you with multi-/overweight packages (hehe)

Edit: FWIW, my package weighs 2.2 lbs (hehehe)
[Nook Color General] evilPERSOn2009:
Mine was shrink wrapped too but it was done different from the ones at the store. Mine seem to have been done with one of those shrink wrapping machine that you could buy from store.
[Nook Color General] evilPERSOn2009:
Mine was shrink wrapped too but it was done different from the ones at the store. Mine seem to have been done with one of those shrink wrapping machine that you could buy from store. I've looked at 5 different Nook Colors at Barnes & Nobles and Walmart around my area and they were all wrapped in a thicker wrapping in a manner resembling wrapping a gift.
[Nook Color General] rawfish:
Sorry to hear, and hope it's a one-off thing. Try contacting them to return it?

I don't think BN will sell these as refurbished products. If they do, they risk negative feedback to their good-standing account, where till date within 30 days they have none (Neutral + Negative).

On a more serious-scale, they won't risk any eBay investigations or even account suspension by falsifying product descriptions.

Take a look here:

http://shop.ebay.com/barnesandnobleinc/m.html

Their regular Nooks are labeled as 'Manufacturer refurbished', while the discounted Color units are branded 'New', so the distinction is definitely there.

I don't work for BN, just pointing out thing to think about. :)
[Nook Color General] lyam23:
Just got mine. It's definitely not refurbished. Brand new, no apparent flaws. OS v. 1.1. So fare so good. Finishing charging now and then to root!
[Nook Color General] kristopherw:
Deal appears to be dead now. Bummer, should have grabbed one when I first heard about it.
[Nook Color General] buzz killington:
I have a theory :) A few weeks ago all the nook colors were pulled from the stores. I bet they pulled them to fix something, then repackaged it and sold them through ebay. They're all technically new, never been opened by customers, but they were opened, fixed and resealed at some factory. It could explain the different firmware.
[Nook Color General] evilPERSOn2009:
Interesting theory and it probably is the case. Since not all Nook Colors were pull off the shelf it must have been a bad batch of Nook Colors that were pulled off shelf to fix and then sold on ebay (explaining why the $50 discount was not offer anywhere else). Technically they are new therefore they could be listed as New ebay.

Either-way they sure didn't fix mine. The flickering screen is pretty bad. Going to try and get it exchange. Damn my luck! I hate RMAs.
[Nook Color General] britoso:
Does it flicker all the time? Mine flashes white when I unlock. (unlock animation effet is disabled)
[Nook Color General] convergefan:
is anybody else still waiting for theirs?

i ordered mine on the first day of the sale but haven't received any shipping info.
[Nook Color General] pyro530:
Nope, mine was sitting on my doorstep when I got home. I live in California, shipped from Sparks, NV.

Did you check your paypal for tracking?
[Nook Color General] convergefan:
yep, nothing there. i expected some delay considering b&n have to move 11,000 of these things.
[Nook Color General] openallnight:
I think BN runs a big risk of bad reviews and reps if they are caught selling refurbs as new. Its probably not worth it but who knows. Personally my thinking is that the reason they had them on sale (on ebay) rather than BN.com or in store is to move inventory and make sure they minimize returns as its just more complicated to return with ebay in the middle as you cannot take them back to stores. maybe they sneaked a few refurbs inbetween but who knows.

I got mine today and am happy with it.. there is a small light leak at the bottom and I am going to get it checked out in BN but i am pretty sure the one i returned in Best Buy had a similar issue
[Nook Color General] rtod4edw:
Got mine today! But I will wait a while to auto nooter it. Bought it Monday night @ 10pm and was delivered by noon today. Great screen and works good too. My hand is tired from playing on it for last 4 hours.

:D
[Nook Color General] bomber889:
wow you guys are lucky, it shipping fron nevada. I'm in california and it shipped from philadelphia. should be getting mine tomorrow though.. hopefully
[Nook Color General] cmstlist:
My order was Tuesday night, shipping from Sparks NV to Point Roberts WA. As of today it was in Portland and then left again. So I'm sure it'll be circa Bellingham by tomorrow but it won't get shipped to the Point until Monday.
[Nook Color General] archat68:
Wow!

I missed this thread. Was looking for a Nook Color for quite some time.

Anybody selling theirs? :o
[Nook Color General] cmstlist:
Picked it up, and I'm writing from it this very minute! It's tethered to my Nexus One. Haven't nooted it yet though, still on the bus back home from South Delta. I declared it at the border, showed the receipt, and the agent waved me through without duties or taxes. Sweet!
[Nook Color General] virual:
When the SDK came out, there was a port in a few days. Just curious if anyone is doing a port of Xoom's Honeycomb to NC or people just waiting for google to opensource honeycomb? Any clue when that'll happen?
[Nook Color General] xdadidida:
Hopefully: http://news.techworld.com/mobile-wi...fter-one-day-on-sale/?intcmp=ros-md-acc-p-nws
[Xoom General] unknown_owner:
I know some people were scheduled to have theirs delivered today. did you ever get a tracking number? Some were scheduled to be delivered tomorrow as well.
[Xoom General] unknown_owner:
Nevermind, I just saw the old post updated. how do you delete a post?
[EVO 4G General] Gonesingle:
hey guys..long time Nexus One user here. I always loved my nexus and found no reason to ever give it up..got terribly sick of tmobile's piece of sh*t coverage and decided to hop onto sprint and got the evo as it was the only other android phone on the market that appealed to me and WOW!! definetely an upgrade.

I rooted, switched to a new kernel and am running a modded version of CM7 GB with WIMAX abilities and i love this phone even more than i loved my N1!

i just cant wait for a WIMAX MIUI rom!!

that is all ;)
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
Welcome aboard. I love my EVO, she is starting to fall behind in the smartphone world with all the monsters coming out... but she is stil no slouch.
[EVO 4G General] Gonesingle:
i think the evo could still be categorized as a monster with its features!
[EVO 4G General] swaze:
And let the flaming from the usual suspects begin in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.......

Sent from my HTC EVO
[EVO 4G General] mdubs:
I also came from the N1. Had to give her up because my wife's BB crapped out on her and tmob was starting to play games with what was considered "free" minutes. The bills were getting un-effking-believable.

We also went into a Sprint store when they were giving double-buyback deals to new customers. They took my N1 for over $300 and almost $200 for my wife's brick.... Literally it would not even turn on...

While I miss her terribly, the screen size, the true multi-touch and CM7 with 4g has made me happy with the switch.
[EVO 4G General] Gonesingle:
the last month before i switched to Sprint, Tmobile sent me an automated text stating even though i had unlimited data, i was using too much so they were gonna pretty much throttle my bandwidth for the rest of my billing cycle. needless to say, ontop of the already crappy coverage, i had even worse coverage and it truly pissed me off. it took me 20 minutes to browse through 3 diff pages on my throttled-3G.

the Evo 4G is blazing fast in terms of bandwidth..even on plain ol' 3G in my area.

I'm just patiently(not really lol) awaiting the arrival of MIUI with WIMAX and ill be in evo-heaven
[EVO 4G General] Dan330:
welcome to the evolution... i cant wait to see what evo2 will be like.
[EVO 4G General] Systemfraud:
Most likely won't ever be 4G on MIUI, but on topic, welcome aboard fellow Evo user!
[XPERIA X8 General] kessiyean:
Hello,

I have installed an other keyboard that I like so much. For me it is the best keyboard I every had. The keyboard ist still running but it is shorter. The original keyboard on original phone is larger smoother and not blurry (see the line on the 3 bottom buttons). The left one is the original and the right one is my x8 with this keyboard installed. What can I do to change the dimension from keyboard? I think it was in an xml file from the keyboard.apk or from framework-res.apk? But which xml file? Please help me :-(
[XPERIA X8 General] congloi:
can you share this keyboard. thank
[XPERIA X8 General] kessiyean:
The keyboard is not one file. There are more files that must copy to System. Dont know how to make an installable file. And its not ready. The dimension is wrong.

I hope anybody here from the developers can help me to find the last issue with the dimension. I think that is the reason while it not runs so smoothly like the original.
[XPERIA X8 General] Alex4utm:
The keybord have the same size(pixels)...

X8 res in higher.. and that is the reson...
[XPERIA X8 General] kessiyean:
Do you know what I can do to fix this? Did I make bigger icons for the keyboard.apk or did I change anything in any xml file? I dont know which file I must be change to fix the resolution :-(
[XPERIA X8 General] DarkThanos:
Even if you find the file xml, I dont think you would be able to edit it.

The easier thing to do, is to decrease your phone resolution to look like x10mini... well its not a good idea..
[XPERIA X8 General] qsmyle:
Use SMART KEYBOARD PRO!

You can install skins, layouts and modify button size.
[XPERIA X8 General] kessiyean:
Why I should not be able to edit the xml file? At first time I start I think Im not be able to becam the keyboard running. I crash the system at once twice and so often but I dont give up and know it is running.

The Smart Keyboard is not this what I want.
[XPERIA X8 General] pongscript:
can you share the file. I have both x10 mini and x8 too.. I could try to modify it.
[XPERIA X8 General] a-k-t-w:
Is all your after a T9 keyboard? Or just this particular keyboard?
[XPERIA X8 General] kessiyean:
Here are the files. Before begin look in the install.txt file and read it before start. I dont can give any help. Im not a developer....

After install you have the xperia mini keypad T9 in small and not so smooth like the original one. (See the picture above) The original keyboard from X8 dont change you can use them both.

Phone must be rooted. I copy all files and change permissions with root-explorer.
[XPERIA X8 General] Alex4utm:
or you can instal this ROM

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=964223

Have this keyboard preinstaled
[XPERIA X8 General] kessiyean:
I dont want install a new rom but can you please tell me how do you chance the size from the keyboard so that it have the same size like the original on the x10 mini?
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] jerpelea:
DEVELOPMENT (we need to write sources for)

-bt (from source)

-wifi (from source)

-lights (from source)

-libaudio (from source)

-gps (from source)

-fm (almost ready - not working corectly due to libaudio lacking fm implementation)

-camera (almost ready - SNAPSHOT VGA LIMITED / VIDEO FULLY WORKING)

-sensors (precompiled - working in compatibility mode)

this progress is not affecting rom functionality or stability

From FXP031 we added suport for W8 device !

anyone willing to contribute can join on

https://github.com/freexperia

if you want to support our work you can donate

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=THUJZQB2U5PNC

if any part of this software is copyright please pm and i will remove it

i don't want to share anything that is considered ilegal !

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[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] jerpelea:
WORKING

-audio

-video player

-sensors

-gps

-3d

-lights

-camera - limited to vga

-videocamera - fully working

-GSM

-data - fixed

-wired headset

-apps2sd (native with provided baseband and kernel 015)

-audio & video streaming

-wifi - sources modified to merge cm

-HOTSPOT - fully working

-ANT+ - fully working

WORK IN PROGRESS

development stoped

BUGS

FM - not working yet

CAMERA - full mode
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] jerpelea:
Install guide

1.Flash new kernel (with builtin recovery) XXX_CUSTOM.ftf using flashtool

2.on FXP Boot Logo press any key to enter Recovery

3.flash FXP ROM

4.flash Google Apps

5.WIPE Device

6.Reboot and enjoy

Download

(PLEASE DO NOT MIRROR)

Cm7.1.0 FXP043 with kernel and flashtool - http://hotfile.com/dl/133248223/e32dc87/FXP043a-update-cm-7.1.0-X8-KANG-signed.7z.html

GAPPS ADDON - http://cmw.22aaf3.com/gapps/gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] racht:
GSM,Wifi and BT are all working in my CM7 0.6, you can take both wpa_supplicant and hciattach from it, those are compiled for X8.

Where can I see sensors patch ?

P.S.

in x8 makefile, this line is wrong :

frameworks/base/data/etc/android.hardware.camera.flash-autofocus.xml:system/etc/permissions/android.hardware.camera.flash-autofocus.xml \

X8 does not have neither flash or autofocus ..
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] Asdoos:
Nice Screen ; )

2 Top Developers help each other
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] tremendouz:
some of topic:

j youre that fast, making progress every day, will starting on x8 influence progress in x10 or are these parallel project which are similar and can work together?
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] jerpelea:
copy old sensors from shakira and rewrite sensorservice

you have my patch on git

do you have sources for wpa_supplicant and hciattach?
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] racht:
tremendouz : beside of your post being complete offtopic, your signature is VERY disturbing !

jerpelea : to fix wpa_supplicant I changed all "tiwlan0" to "wlan0" in wifi6.1 sources, and copied wifi part of Legend config to Hero, that did the trick.

hciattach : i'm using 2.1 from sony currently, it works.

The problem is the same - in 2.2/2.3 hciattach does not recognize device name of X8, otherwise it would work.

dhcpd is a bit different in original X8 as well, I use original to have resolving, otherwise it connects, gets ip, but no resolve (fails to set dns)
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] muzik_demon:
You bet!

Join both their progress and its almost a full rom.
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] stoyandim:
so video recording is working?
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] Asdoos:
Please don't make pressure ;) Its the first day of development. and he has post that the first Release is downloadable today so wait and try by yourself
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] stoyandim:
I'm just asking buddy. Because Camera is under the working things. That's all :P
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] ponanovn:
Does GSM or 3G work? Not listed.

EDIT: is this for E15i or E15a or both?
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] BehradGH:
when will the first version ready? is it stable? because roms like CM Ported X10mini is not stable and having some problems after some works with os .

tanx for this Both oF U .
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] Ryukenden:
Can u please stop asking stupid questions and let the ppl work on the ROM?
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] dave1977:
Sounds good keep up the good work
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] Asdoos:
WOW we have radio :D You are awesome guy :D Thaaank you
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] Asdoos:
How we Flash baseband o.O Pls help
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] jerpelea:
everithing is included in the package
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] ivan4o5:
Are you uploading it now ?

P.S : Cant open https://github.com/freexperia/FreeXperia , is this only for me ? :S
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] ponanovn:
Please upload to multiupload next time.
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] jamesbond22:
Now I have deleted ext partition.

v003:

- audio - WORK

- video - max resolution 240x320

- video streaming - NOT WORK

- sensors - WORK

- GPS - WORK

- 3D - WORK

- lights - WORK

- camera - work only VGA (640x480)

- video recording - WORK on VideoCam Illusion

- GSM - WORK

- data network (2G, 3G) - WORK

- bluetooth - WORK

- Wi-Fi - NOT WORK

- app2sd (gingerbread) - WORK but not always correct

- USB storage - WORK

- heandset detection - WORK

- vibration, LED, Live wallpapers - WORK

- installing apps - WORK

2D and 3D is not optimized?! JiT not work?!

Tests from Quadrant advanced:

Best result on MiniCM - 1107

Best result on v003 - 1059

Score for 2D on MiniCM - ~250

Score for 2D on v003 - ~220

Score for 3D on MiniCM - ~390

Score for 3D on v003 - ~290

JiT turned on - my result - 1000 - 1060

JiT turned off - my result - 1000 - 1060
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] muzik_demon:
Has anyone tried flashing without a baseband change? Also why it maybe necessary?

I didn't change but I already have 015 one, so can't say anything but everything works fine except the know bugs and stupid "sdcard safe to remove" reboots
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] oisteink:
what I've done:

sync'd CM7 repo in android/system

done a git clone of FreeXperia in android

. extract_files.sh

copied files from android/FreeXperia to android/system

When i do

lunch cyanogen_x8-eng

i get the following:

vendor/cyanogen/products/cyanogen_x10mini.mk:64: frameworks/base/data/sounds/AudioPackageHtc.mk: Ingen slik fil eller filkatalog
build/core/product_config.mk:196: *** device/se/x10mini/device_x10mini.mk: PRODUCT_NAME must be unique; "full" already used by build/target/product/full.mk device/se/x10mini/device_x10mini.mk . Stop.

How about adding tags/branches. One with stuff that's working and one that contains the half finished code.

I reverted to latest checking before x10mini :)
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] esirad:
What is your basebond number, and wich version of kernel u use?

Becuz app2sd not workd for me. Tnx
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] ojojoj:
@jerpelea

where I can find lcd density change option(file) in file system?

Because in build.prop I cant find it and apps which can make this cant do it.
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] jamesbond22:
My baseband have 15 on ending. And I have this same kernel as you -2.6.29.
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] xewl:
Baseband has nothing to do with App2SD.

It's just the frequencies the phone must work between.

This is generally the same everywhere, next to FM-radio ofcourse.

So, I'd say, just try the rom, if something doesn't work, just ask!
[XPERIA X8 Original Android Development] xpaa:
do I need to reflash with provided baseband???

I have xxx015 version

@jamesbond do you reflashed?